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Jinnahbhai Poonja (1857 – 15 April 1902) was a prosperous Khoja Gujarati merchant in British India, who was founder and chairman of Jinnahbhai & Co. and Graham's Shipping and Trading Company. He was the father of Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Fatima Jinnah, alongside 5 other children.
Jinnahbhai Poonja was a prosperous Gujarati merchant, in the weaving business. He moved to Karachi from Kathiawar, because of his business partnership with Graham's Shipping and Trading Company, whose regional office was set up in Karachi.
Jinnah was the eldest of seven children of Jinnahbhai Poonja, a prosperous merchant, and his wife, Mithibai. His family was a member of the Khoja caste, Hindus who had converted to Islam centuries earlier and who were followers of the Aga Khan.
Just before Jinnah's birth his father, Jinnahbhai Poonja, had moved from Gujarat to Karachi. Significantly, Jinnah's father was born in 1857 -- at the end of one kind of Muslim history, with the...
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Mohammed Ali Jinnah (born December 25, 1876?, Karachi, India [now in Pakistan]—died September 11, 1948, Karachi) was an Indian Muslim politician, who was the founder and first governor-general (1947–48) of Pakistan. Early years. Jinnah was the eldest of seven children of Jinnahbhai Poonja, a prosperous merchant, and his wife, Mithibai.
As a result he was considered the rising star of Congress. But clever Jinnah, a Musla in Parsi language, had wooed at age of 38 a Parsi girl of 16, which was neither liked by her father nor by the influential Parsi community. The couple's only child, daughter Dina, was born on 15 August 1919.
